[Asis-l] Doctoral Colloquium -- Call for Paticipation

[Yolande Nanayakkara]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Doctoral Colloquium at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association of
Information Science and Technology

Crystal City, Virginia 




Tuesday, October 31, 2017 8:30-12:30




 

We invite doctoral students to participate in the 2017 ASIS&T Doctoral
Colloquium, which will take place as part of the 2017 Annual Meeting of the
Association of Information Science and Technology in Virginia, Denmark. This
half-day event is intended for those of you in the later stages of your
dissertation research; this means that you are, for example, post-proposal,
or have a completed research design, or have begun data collection.
Pre-proposal students will also be considered. If you are accepted for the
Doctoral Colloquium, your conference fee will be waived.

 

The 2017 ASIS&T Doctoral Colloquium are to provide you with a supportive and
critical learning opportunity to discuss your work in progress (or completed
work, if you have defended your dissertation before the conference),
highlight theoretical and methodological problems/issues for further
discussion and inquiry both with senior mentors and Colloquium participants.
In your one-on-one session with your senior faculty mentor, you will have
the opportunity to receive feedback and comments about your work. There will
also be an opportunity for an open discussion session where you can ask the
doctoral mentors questions about career, the job search, managing an
academic career, and other topics of interest. Another goal of the
Colloquium is to develop a supportive community within which you can begin
to develop your professional network by interacting with peers and senior
scholars in information science.  The organizers will invite a group of
prominent professors and experts to serve as mentors during the Doctoral
Colloquium.

 


To benefit from the Doctoral Colloquium, you should be a PhD student, and be
in the post-proposal stage of your dissertation research or have a completed
research design, or have begun data collection; this way, participants and
mentors may be of help in shaping and framing the research and analysis
activities. Pre-proposal students will also be considered.


 


How to submit


 


Submit your completed proposal to the conference review system at:

 

https://www.conftool.com/asist2017/

 

All proposals submitted to the Doctoral Colloquium will undergo a thorough
reviewing process with a view to providing detailed and constructive
feedback. The Doctoral Colloquium program committee will select the best
submissions for participation. The student winners of the proposal and
dissertation of the year awards will be invited to the Colloquium without a
submission. We expect to accept a total of 15 participants.

 

Submit a nomination letter from your advisor or chair and a five-page
description (in English) of your PhD research proposal or dissertation
project electronically via the conference submission system. Your
description must address each of the following questions:

 

1. Problem statement: What is the problem that you are addressing?

2. Relevance: Why the problem is important?

3. Related work: How have others attempted to address this problem?

4. Research question(s): What are the research questions that you plan to
address?

5. Approach: How are you planning to address your research questions?

6. Evaluation plan: How will you measure your success - faster/more
accurate/less failures/etc.? 

7. Preliminary results: Do you have any preliminary results that demonstrate
that your approach is promising?

8. Implications: What are the theoretical, methodological and practical
contributions of your work?

 

Additionally, all submissions must be single-author. Please acknowledge your
PhD advisor(s) and other contributors in the Acknowledgements section. Your
application statement will not be published. Students accepted to present at
the Doctoral Colloquium must plan to attend the full Doctoral Colloquium on
October 31, 2017 and the Student Awards session on November 1, 2017 in order
to gain as much value as possible from the experience.

 

Important dates

 

Deadline for submission: July 14, 2017

Decisions made: August 25, 2017

 

If you have questions, please contact the Colloquium organizers

 

Dr. Howard Rosenbaum                Dr. Pnina Fichman

hrosenba at indiana.edu                fichman at indiana.edu

 

School of Informatics and Computing

Indiana University

 

 

 

 

Yolande Nanayakkara

Communications Officer

301.495.0900

 <http://www.asist.org> www.asist.org

 



 

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